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Internet Marketing Meets Life…

Archive for October, 2006

I can’t hide it anymore, I am getting old, and it’s not just trying to hide the grey hair by dying it blond, there are other disturbing symptoms too..

symptom 1.

Tonight I’m sat here in the semi darkness with most of the lights in the house switched off and the curtains drawn, like some grumpy old git, so that I don’t have to go an answer the door bell every five minutes to the latest bunch of trick or treaters looking for some goodies..

and it’s not just because I forget to buy any candy, as always, but more because I’m not keen to be standing on my own door step telling a bunch of 15 and 16 year olds “no, they can’t have cash instead”.

So instead here I sit, hiding in my own house from a bunch of kids.

LOL!

ain’t life silly.

symptom 2.

I now prefer to visit pubs and clubs where the music isn’t too loud, so that I can site and talk with people, rather than pubs and clubs that have the music so loud you can’t hear yourself think, let alone hold a conversation. I’m even starting to sound like an old git.

symptom 3.

Whilst I do enjoy a good fireworks display, I now get irritated by people constantly letting off fireworks..

I know it’s that time of the year, but it seems I live in an area where everyone wants to have their own fireworks display and at any time of the day or night, it’s a little distracting.

I suppose at some point over the last few years I finally started growing up, long past time many would say..
😉

Perhaps age is also why I keep losing track of time [see previous post], although I prefer to believe that it’s because I enjoy what I do so much that hours can seem like minutes some times.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t make a living off the net just because it’s fun, a lot of the time it isn’t, but also because it allows me a certain degree of freedom to work when I want to and not to have to answer to a boss.

The flip side of that is that as your own boss, you often end up working longer and harder, partly because you’ve got no saftey net of a paycheck at the end of the month to fall back on, and partly because when it does go well you get to keep the fruits of your labor all to yourself, well, after the Government takes it’s 40-50% cut in taxes that is..

So I guess that makes me a grumpy old git who works too hard, now if only I had someone to whine to about how hard i have to work I’d feel complete!

🙂

Whinge over for the day, enjoy Halloween!

2006
30
Oct

Internet Marketing and the Time Warp Effect

Working at from home on the internet can have strange effects on your life.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been in a time warp and days or even weeks have just

flown by, evidenced by the infrequency of my posts on this blog..

I guess that’s why my wife, Ira, is so important to my health, wealth and

happiness. She has an amazing (although sometimes irritating) habbit of dragging

me back to reality and making me look around at the world now and then.

She started a new job as an estate agent a few weeks ago and although she’s enjoying it, mostly because she isn’t stuck in an office all the while, she does work long hours and is tired most of the time, but still has the energy to drag me out to the gym, cinema, a walk or a meal out on a regular basis.

If she didn’t I’d probably be a mushroom already..
🙂

Of course the down the down side to having such a cool wife, is occaisionally

having to go and watch a girly movie, like “The devil wears Prada”, which I would never have gone to see otherwise, and guess what, I actually enjoyed it, but don’t tell any of my mates that..
😉

ah well, enough rambling for one day, back to work.

23 days this time since the last post, it’s getting worse..

Or maybe I’m just getting busier!

Talking of being busy [a tenuous link to a thought that’s probably gonna get me in trouble], why is it that if a woman calls you and you are about to eat, they expect you to let your meal go cold and talk to them, rather than finish your meal while it’s still hot and then call them back..

For some reason they decide that you are choosing the food over them, or maybe it’s just the women in my life..
🙂

Oh, I’ve changed the comment posting criteria on the site to make it easier for people to post comments, they will still need to be approved by me before they’re shown (to filter out porn, pills and pharma spam), but you don’t need to “register” anymore, so comment away..